Copa America 2019: 5 reasons why Argentina will not win the Copa America

#2 They have a young squad still in transition

Argentina v Nicaragua - Friendly Match

The last 15 years of Argentine football was characterized by the presence of numerous world-class players who had starred in back-to-back triumphs at the Under 20 World Cup and Olympics Games in the mid-noughties and as such were expected to translate this success into the senior team.

These groups of players were termed the 'Golden Generation' and had within its ranks some of the best players in history including Sergio Aguero, Angel DI Maria, Javier Zanetti, Javier Mascherano and arguably the greatest of them all - Lionel Messi among others.

With a squad of this quality, it was believed that Argentina would thump all before them on the international scene. But that failed to happen as a talented bunch of players always faltered on the big stages with three consecutive final defeats from 2014 to 2016 being the nadir.

Most of these men have departed the scene, paving the way for the younger generation to achieve what they could not. Coach Lionel Scaloni has been building his team around a core of young untested players since he took the reins in August 2018.

Of his 23-man squad for the 2019 Copa America, only five players - Lionel Messi (130). Sergio Aguero (90), Nicolas Otamendi (60), Ramiro Funes Muri (25) and Paulo Dybala (20) have won 20 caps or over, while 10 players have represented Argentina 5 times or below.

This shows that this is a very inexperienced squad building for the future and it is a known fact that tournament experience comes to the fore in triumphing more often than not. The inexperience in the current Argentine squad could be detrimental to their chances and ambitions of success.